Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture. Clips include Dragon Inn (Hu King, 1969), Modeng Baobiao (Michael Hui, 1981), Liang Xiao Wu Zhi (Shu Kei, 1981), Fuzi Qing (Allen Fong, 1981), Wuting (Kirk Wong, 1981), Touben Nuhai (Ann Hui, 1982), Diyi Leixing Weixian (Tsui Hark, 1980), Sweet Dream (Jim Shum, 1979) and Rhythm (Jim Shum, 1980).

广告片导演小汤（任达华 饰）带领摄制组在一座废弃的老宅子内拍摄，房屋有一贴着封条的古旧箱子。因嫌其碍事，小汤不顾摄制组成员的警告，执意将箱子挪往他处。但意外随即而至，箱子封条自动脱落，导演助理小谢被箱子撞倒，从高处坠落不治身亡。而这起惨剧，小汤竟在冥冥中的幻觉里早已得知。
广告拍摄完毕，但死亡的阴影并未就此散去。曾参与拍摄的工作人员接二连三死去，死状恐怖，小汤更是为这一连串的恐怖事件和挥之不去的梦魇所困扰。为了摆脱厄运纠缠，他决定重返老宅，寻找箱子中所隐藏的秘密……

The spirit of independence that runs through Wang’s films finds its most audacious expression in this newly restored and remastered tale of an urban cowboy tasked with delivering a briefcase to a mob boss. The plot takes a back seat in this movie, shot on location in Hong Kong, as the unnamed protagonist encounters an array of characters from across the social spectrum. Structured as a series of monologic portraits based on local newspaper stories, punctuated with bloody visions and featuring a circuitous foot chase and a femme fatale named Money, Life Is Cheap implicates the power relations of a boomtown in flux.
Kate MacKay

1986 film by Allen Fong

1996 film directed by Stanley Kwan